The Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP) is a growing online resource that supports site-wide discovery, mapping, analysis, and sharing of information about Pompeian artworks in their architectural and urban contexts. It is being developed using the principles of Linked Open Data. The goal of PALP is to increase the number of researchers and members of the public who can access, analyze, interpret, and share the artworks of the most richly documented urban environment of the Roman world: Pompeii.
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| Snake | Ariadne | House of the Floral Cubicula | Room with Scenes from Troy |
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| Riot of 59 CE | Couple | Cupids at Work | Forum Scenes |
Browsing within PALP will usually show location(s) and images related to the identifier being viewed. PALP has assigned identifiers to thousands of images, rooms, and properties at Pompeii, as well as to regions, insulae, and the city itself. It has also assigned identifiers to concepts that appear in Pompeian wall paintings, such as ‘snake’. Browsing to ‘pompeii’ will show all concepts identified to date. They may take a few seconds to load. In general, PALP uses short web-address (URLs) that are often easy to remember and that can be easily shared. Please note that many pages will try to syncronize highlighting between the "panes" displaying information, maps, and images. Those interactions are under steady development and will improve over time.
People, Institutions, and Resources
PALP is a collaborative initiative co-directed by Eric Poehler (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Sebastian Heath (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU). It builds on data from the Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project and uses other public resources such as Pompeii in Pictures. It is developed and deployed using open source software and is informed by the principles of Linked Open Data. PALP was initially funded by a grant from the Getty Foundation as part of its Digital Art History initiative. It is now part of the Pompeii Linked Open Data (P-LOD) initiative.
Follow project-related developments via the P-LOD Bluesky account (
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